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Maybe her mother is right and Carolyn Bushell was "just too trusting." She was certainly desperate, 10,000 miles from her home in Duluth, Minnesota, with a divorce looming and little likelihood she would win custody of her three children. Desperate enough to seek help from an Indian spirit medium who promised that the rituals and prayers he prescribed would help solve her marital problems. Desperate enough to travel into the darkness on the night of Nov. 8, 1999, with four men she hardly knew, down the dirt tracks in a 1,000-hectare plantation of towering oil palms. They...
...likelihood these items, like many African antiquities on the market today, are fake. Christopher Steiner, a professor at Connecticut College and the author of African Art in Transit, estimates that "90% of what's coming into the U.S. is replicas or tourist art that's being made to look old." The problem is so widespread that even Bryna Freyer, the Smithsonian's African-art curator, can't always spot a phony. "I'm not sure I'd know an authentic Bura piece from a fake," says Freyer, referring to 2nd century artifacts from Niger, "because there simply aren...
...country." There has also been a disagreement over other tactics. For as long as the FBI has been investigating overseas, it has wanted to carry "long guns" like rifles or submachine guns. State has blocked that, saying the bigger weapons are intimidating and heighten tensions, and therefore increase the likelihood of trouble. After heated debate, FBI agents were finally permitted to carry long guns hidden in their vehicles...
...attention examines the subject of...attention. "Understanding and managing attention is now the single most important determinant of business success," declare Thomas Davenport and John Beck, authors of The Attention Economy, just published by the Harvard Business Press. Organizations, they say, can suffer from "organizational ADD," an increased likelihood of missing key information when making decisions and a decreased ability to focus. By attention the authors mean both the ability to pay attention and the ability to attract it. While readers of Susan Sontag (Illness as Metaphor) will wince at the gimmicky ADD slogan, any executive who is drowning...
...country." There has also been a disagreement over other tactics. For as long as the FBI has been investigating overseas, it has wanted to carry "long guns" like rifles or submachine guns. State has blocked that, saying the bigger weapons are intimidating and heighten tensions, and therefore increase the likelihood of trouble. After heated debate, FBI agents were finally permitted to carry long guns hidden in their vehicles...